"There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting," Lowe said.

"They can't be any of the things that you long to play as an actor. I'm getting to play those parts now and loving it. When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously."

Lowe added that he believes that there is "a historical bias that good-looking people are not funny," and recalled that in high school he was a theatre geek.

"It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot," he said.

After finishing his run on Parks and Recreation, Lowe is poised to star in his own NBC comedy series with Rebecca Romijn and Rob Riggle.